Wealth can be gained in different ways, but its ownership is seen as success, having more wealth is seen as better than having less. So much so that many people would see that statement as a pointless truism. A more successful person is a better person. Someone with little or no wealth is possibly to… Continue reading Wealth
Oligarchs & Nationhood
Looking at the way that the oligarchy, the plutocracy, is using the national politicians that it owns, as puppets to their own commercial or political power seeking ends. At first glimpse, the fact that the oligarchs own the politicians & use them for their own profit & rent seeking ends might imply that the oligarchs… Continue reading Oligarchs & Nationhood
The Unkolektable, or “How Not To Make Friends & Influence People”
It appears that my lot in life is to upset gatekeepers, be they fascist or avowedly antifascist. Three Fediverse instances now have decided that they don’t want me to be a part of them, or so it would appear from my current lack of access to Kolektiva Dot Social. Such is life in the Oh… Continue reading The Unkolektable, or “How Not To Make Friends & Influence People”
Hypothetical Billionaires
Just analysing the financial aspects of the life of a hypothetical billionaire. Let us say our hypothetical parasite is 62 years of age & has amassed $33bn If they were the most industrious of workers creating useful goods or services for the benefit of themselves & the community of which they are a part &… Continue reading Hypothetical Billionaires
Worthiness & Unworthiness
Worthiness & Unworthiness Them & Us Our worthy overlords & our poor piteous selves Just imagine that you were a person who had the prescience to see virtue in gaining wealth, not your wealth, not yet anyway, obviously, you were much too busy using your innate abilities to acquire other people’s wealth to create any… Continue reading Worthiness & Unworthiness
Am I Mad?
Am I mad? I see almost everything said by other people, all other people, as wrong, being based on ideas that I see as myths, even or especially, with those who I agree with in general emotional terms. What does that say about what I believe or propose? Is there some hidden esoteric stream of… Continue reading Am I Mad?
How Money Does & Doesn’t Work in Oz
How Money Does & Doesn’t Work in Oz There is an extremely widespread misconception of how money comes to exist & the part it plays in society. How money doesn’t work The misconception, popular amongst economists trained by neoliberals, which is most economists, has government needing taxation or revenues from issuing bonds before they can… Continue reading How Money Does & Doesn’t Work in Oz
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#RandomThoughtsSunday must be lamb today cos beef was last week the Moody Blues didn’t mention the corned beef next week & pork the week after creatures of habit, we
Community versus Indidividuality
How is it possible that in a human world that has survived for 100,000 + years, only surviving by virtue of people forming cooperative, self-reinforcing communities & fighting against the primitive individualist barbarians on the outside who have from the very beginning assaulted the communities to rape & pillage & satisfy their child-like urges to… Continue reading Community versus Indidividuality
Panpartisan Australia
People are reluctant to accept the word bipartisan, how about panpartisan? There is no party in parliament in Australia that is not Neoliberal in their actions, which is all that matters, forget their words, they are meaningless if not backed up by actions. At the moment, since 1983 in fact, we have had a bipartisan… Continue reading Panpartisan Australia
Neoliberal Logic – 1
Neoliberalism posits, suggests, many things that make no sense in our human world, maybe in some parallel universe up a Neoliberal wormhole, but just not in our world. One thing that it suggested by our financial gurus in the past year or so is that when you have inflation, caused in this instance by lack… Continue reading Neoliberal Logic – 1
Naked Treasurers
It is that time of the year again in Australia when everyone follows the Naked Treasurer around telling him how gloriously arrayed he is in his Budget Surplus. Politicians & journalists alike, friends telling him how well he is doing in achieving this mythical Surplus, enemies telling him to try harder to achieve it…. &… Continue reading Naked Treasurers
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Israel: The Prodigal Son who returns after 2000 years to throw everyone out of the family home & pick fights with all the neighbours. That’s the last time they’ll kill the fatted calf for you son.